The law in the UK is being weaponised to silence victims of sexual violence – but the government could learn a lesson or two from Texas on how to shift the balance. Today is the Day of Action against SLAPPs, please follow the link on the bottom of this article to make your voice heard
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Read below former Index CEO and now the chief executive of the Committee to Project Journalists Jodie Ginsberg’s powerful James Cameron Memorial Lecture delivered before the targeted killing this week by Israeli forces of a three-strong Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese television crew
Now that Lowry Academy has been publicly named, Index has written a follow-up to last week’s book banning story
Beware regimes which use “child protection” as a way to censor
A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women
A tight funding deadline highlighted just how vital it is as a source of news and information
We may find the al-Quds Day march this Sunday distasteful, but banning it risks opening the floodgates to more frequent deployment of “safety” concerns to silence dissent
Index and other organisations call on the UK government to provide clarity over public broadcaster’s funding at a critical time
Students at a University of Essex event talks about their freedom of expression